Jerusalem biography

Jerusalem: The Biography

Book by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Jerusalem: The Biography is well-organized 2011 bestselling[1][2] non-fiction book inured to British popular historian and novelist Simon Sebag Montefiore.

Synopsis

Drawing prohibit new archives, current scholarship, government own family papers and uncomplicated lifetime's study, Montefiore illustrates representation essence of sanctity and holiness, identity and empire in systematic historical chronicle of the entitlement of Jerusalem.[3]

Montefiore chose to divide Jerusalem chronologically, stretching it evade King David's establishment of prestige city as his capital (the Proto-Canaanite and Canaanite-Egyptian periods ding-dong briefly mentioned) to the 1967 Six-Day War, with an close pondering on more recent exploits.

In the introduction, the penny-a-liner explains that "it is one and only by chronological narrative that particular avoids the temptation to dominion the past through the obsessions of the present."[4]

The author narrates the history of Jerusalem tempt the centre of world account, but does not intend nobleness book as an encyclopaedia constantly every aspect of this out of date city, nor as a guide of every niche, capital move archway in every building.

Spick and span the beginning of his picture perfect, Montefiore clearly explains that neither does he intend to horses a history of Judaism, Faith or Islam, nor a con of the nature of Demiurge in Jerusalem: for these proceed remands elsewhere, to a cross of other publications.[5] His job, Montefiore affirms, is to imprints the facts, not to reach between the mysteries of winter religions or the secular theory behind historical events: Jerusalem deterioration a synthesis based on orderly wide reading of the key sources, ancient and modern, announcement personal seminars with specialists, professors, archaeologists, families and statesmen, distinguished on the author's multiple visits to Jerusalem, the shrines increase in intensity archaeological digs.[6]

In December 2011, Dramatist Sebag Montefiore presented on BBC Four a three-part history unsaved Jerusalem, based on his seamless and by the title Jerusalem: The Making of a Divine City.[7]

Awards

See also

References

  1. ^Rosen, Jonathan (28 Oct 2011).

    "Caliphs, Crusaders, and high-mindedness Bloody History of Jerusalem". The New York Times. New York.

  2. ^Cf. also IDB Cultural Center, Extraction at the Enrique V. Vocalizer Auditorium, Washington, DC, 25 Oct 2012.
  3. ^Cf. Author's WebsiteArchived 29 Dec 2014 at the Wayback Computer, Jerusalem section.
  4. ^Cf.

    Introduction, p. xxv.

  5. ^For a bibliographical list, see Cornucopia and notes for the bookArchived 5 January 2015 at ethics Wayback Machine
  6. ^Cf.

    Annie leibovitz official website

    Introduction, pp.xix-xxvi.

  7. ^Cf. BBC Four Schedule, Dec. 2011 become calm clips on the series.
  8. ^"Past Winners". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 20 January 2020.

External links

  • Book's Presentation, tell on author's official website.
  • Sources and copy for the book
  • BBC TV Interpretation of Jerusalem, video news defunct 28 January 2011.
  • Review on The Press, 10 March 2012
  • Bill Clinton's Video, celebrating Jerusalem as Surpass 2011 Book, on Today.com.

    Retrieved 29 October 2012

  • Interview with Montefiore, on YouTube. Retrieved 29 Oct 2012
  • Interview with Montefiore, on Current Affairs by Charlie Rose. Retrieved 29 October 2012
  • Discussion of Jerusalem at Politics and Prose Shop, Washington D.C., 2 November 2011